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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-30 · Portales, NM · May 28, 1986

Date
May 28, 1986 · 11:00 local
Place
Portales, NM
Airport
Municipal
Phase of flight
Level Off Touchdown
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N3557Y
Reported as
Piper PA30
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
700 total650 in this make and model20 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Returned to departure point after gear partially extended. Landed gear up on grass. Generator switches off.

As the FAA filed it

RETURNED TO DEPARTURE POINT AFTER GEAR PARTIALLY EXTENDED. LANDED GEAR UP ON GRASS. GENERATOR SWITCHES OFF.